A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindica...

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep u...

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students...

A popular American novelist, who has written her first non-fiction work about the political infideli...

Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the firs...

There's a war going on in ancient Kyoto. A war fought in shadows, between the forces of the Shogunat...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martia...

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial p...

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...

Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the ch...

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering...

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

Student film and first feature by director Kiyotaka Taguchi. A giant monster invades Japan sending e...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome...